Car-fender



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NITED-` STA'IES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAMS HARE, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 536,518, dated March 26,1895.

Application filed August 17, 1894.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAMS HARE, of Allegheny, county of Allegheny, State of Pennsyl- Vanla, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inY Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my inventionis to produce improvements in car fenders whereby lthe guard may be carried ordinarily in a cornpletely elevated and unobstructing position, but can be instantly let down in front of the car when an accident is threatened and by which the guard, under the Weight of vanything that may be caught by it, will yield suficiently to hold the same safely and securely.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my fender elevated. Fig. II is a similar view of it depressed. Fig. III shows `the manner in which the guard yields under a weight to more securely sustain an object which it has picked up.

Referring to the figures on the drawings, 1 indicates a section of car body and 2 the front dash thereof which should be securely fixed to the car body, and of sufficient strength to support the guard 3 and anything which it may pick up. The guard may be made of metal and may consist of a U-shaped outer frame piece 4, a cross piece 5, and spacing bars 6 united into a firm, compact and strong frame, according to any approved method of construction. The ends of the frame piece 4 are provided with a hinge piece 7, and is designed to be pivotally secured, as by pintles 8, to semielliptic springs 9, secured, as by bolts` 10, to the bottom 0f the car body. Eye pieces 11 on the ends of the springs 9 receive the pintles for hinging the guard to the springs.

13 indicates a lever pivoted, for example, to an eye bolt 14 that passes through the dash near its base and is secured by a nut 15 on the inner side thereof. To the lever 13 suitable trip sustaining mechanism may be attached. It may consist simply of a notched bar 16 pivoted, as indicated at 17, to the free end of the lever 13 and working in a guide frame 18 secured, for example, to the top of the dash. The end of the arm 16 is provided with a ring or handle, by which the arm may be operated 4and which acts to limit the outward movement of the arm through the guide frame.

Serial No. 520,610. (No model.)

19 indicates a plate against which the l notches of the arm 16 may catch for the adjustment of the arm.

2O indicates chains secured at oppositeends to the outer extremity of the guards, as indicated at 2l, and at their opposite ends to the lever 13, as indicated at 22. I 23 indicates supporting chains that arcsecured, as indicated at 25, to the inner edges of the guard near its hinges, and at their opposite ends to the front ot' the dash, as indicated at 26. The chains20 serve to support the guard upon its hinges and limit its movement thereon, and to render the movement of the guard subservient to the lever 13. The chains 23 serve'to limit the depressibility of the springs' 9 and-to afford an additional and rigid supportk for the inner end of the guard,

when the limit of the movement of the springI has been reached.

In practice, the arm 16 is, by the aid of its notches on its inner side, adjusted upon the plate 19 so that the guard is held at the required elevation above the track upon which the carV moves.

In the case of a threatened accident it is usually impossible to apply the brakes quickly posed of meeting an obstruction and sustain-V ing an injury to its mechanism. Forvthat rea? son I design to carry the guard ordinarily by the aid of the arm 16 in the elevated position, asshown in Fig. I. If an accident is threatened the motorman can lift the smooth upper edge of the lever 16 against the top of the guard frame 1S and allow it to slide quickly through the guide frame, thereby instantly lowering the guard into position to perform its oftice. y f

The guard is normally sustained by the springsl 9 in a somewhat slanting position, as shown in Fig. Il, but as soon as it receives the weight of a person, for example, it is depressed IOO into the almost horizontal position shownin Fig. III and holds the person securely as in a basket, thereby preventing its dislodgement and accidental injury after being picked up.

I do not conine myself to the details of con struction herein shown and described, but reserve the right to modify and vary them within the scope of my invention.

l. The combination with a car, of springs secured thereto, a guard hinged to the springs, means for elevating and depressing the outer end of the guard and limiting mechanism adapted to limit the expansion of the springs, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a car, of a guard hinged thereto, a lever pivoted to said car and supporting the guard in an elevated position, a notched arm pivoted to the lever, a plate for fixing the adjustment of the notched arm and a guide frame within which the notched arm works when it is being tripped,substantially as specified.

3. The combination with a car, ofsemi-ellip tical springs secured thereto, a guard hinged to the springs, a lever adapted to sustain, the guard, mechanism for adjustably sustaining the lever, and limiting mechanism secured to the guard and to the car for limiting the ex- Iansion of the springs, substantially as speci 4. The combination with a car ol' springs secured thereto, aguard hinged to the springs, a lever pivoted upon said car, chains connecting the free end of the guard and the lever, and chains secured at their opposite ends to the car and guard to limit the expansion of the springs or'to sustain the guard in the event of accident, substantially as speciied.

In testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my name;

ADAMS HABE. Witnesses:

ALBERT J. WALKER, Jos. J. MCAFEE. 

